With the new mini-series “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” being broadcast in heavy rotation this month, let’s take a look at Andrew Cunanan & His Gay Bathhouse History<\/p>\n
From the book “Vulgar Favors: The Hunt for Andrew Cunanan, the Man Who Killed Gianni Versace” by Maureen Orth<\/p>\n
The Mustang Spa, open twenty-four hours, caters to closeted bisexuals and an admiral or two. \u201cOn the weekends I get the gays,\u201d says owner Todd Kaufman. The Mustang is in North Park, a blue-collar area; not gentrified the way Hillcrest is, it is an easier place to hide. Early in 1996, Andrew started popping into the Mustang for quick sex. By the fall he was staying longer, sometimes for more than twenty-four hours. \u201cI don’t think he was having sex at all,\u201d says Kaufman. \u201cI think he was annoying people.\u201d Andrew was wandering around without sleep and looking the worse for wear. Kaufman had seen the syndrome before. \u201cPeople start acting like they live here. I got the feeling he had lost his job and was on the skids. His stories were out of this world.\u201d In his previous visits, Andrew had kept to himself and given the impression he was slumming. No longer. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou pigeonhole people,\u201d Kaufman continues. \u201cHe went from being one type, dressed in nice clothes, to another \u2013 jeans, T-shirts, leather, bummy, sloppy. People start living at the baths because they don\u2019t want to focus on what\u2019s going on in their lives. They go into the bars till they close, then the baths till they close, so they\u2019re never alone and don\u2019t have to think about anything.\u201d Kaufman calls this \u201ccocooning.\u201d They get very into themselves, very weird.<\/p>\n
You have to put them out. Andrew would come in at 2 A.M. on Saturday, after the bars closed, and would still be at the Mustang late the next day. Eating out of the candy machine or getting an hour pass to go outside and buy something at the taco shop down the street. \u201cRoseanne was on at five P.M. He\u2019d sit and watch that. <\/p>\n
Around this time Robbins was in Mexico, attempting t o get involved in the production of Titanic, hoping to help build sets for the epic film which was shooting there, but he wound up doing stunt work instead. Andrew, oblivious to the ridiculous impression he was making, would go around the Mustang bragging that he was building sets for Titanic and name-dropping about his Hollywood connections. \u201cHe got so desperate when he was trying to tell me these stories\u2014he had to justify his worth,\u201d Todd says. What Andrew was really doing was dealing drugs. \u201cHe was hanging out with three leather druggie types. He came off like a Catholic schoolboy, in over his head. He gave the impression he was trying to act as tough as they were, and he wasn\u2019t. They tolerated him because he was supplying. Two of them are in jail now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaufman started keeping a sharp eye on Andrew, who he thought was on ecstasy or cocaine. \u201cI got the impression people were using him. He was trying to buy people’s attention, and he was selling a lot, too,\u201d Kaufman explains. \u201cHe got on my and my workers’ nerves, and I can put up with a lot or I wouldn\u2019t be in this business.\u201d Kaufman finally decided he had had enough. \u201cWhen he got too involved in dealing, I had to eighty-six him from the club. He made a bunch of threats when I kicked him out: \u2018I\u2019m going to tell my friends not to come in here.\u2019 \u201c Kaufman never considered Andrew violent; he was as he says, \u201ccontrollable. It was very easy to throw him out \u2013 that\u2019s not always the case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaufman concluded that Andrew was suffering from depression and \u201cvery low self-esteem. He was leading several lives at once. He came across as someone drowning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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